-
Chronic wounds represent a significant portion of the complaints seen by physicians, especially in the primary care setting. Visits for wound care account for just over 2% of all visits to office-based physicians in the United States.
-
-
In This Issue: FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.
-
Over the last five years, there has been an increased emphasis on screening for aneuploidy, in part due to the ACOG endorsement of the concept of offering nuchal translucency (NT) and biochemical screening to all pregnant patients, and not just those of advanced maternal age (AMA).
-
It is unclear how many practitioners around the world use routine episiotomy today as a way to avoid third and fourth degree lacerations. There certainly was a period of time when episiotomy was a routine practice in nulliparas.
-
The primary purpose of this phase III study was to determine if maintenance of hemoglobin values above 12 g/dL by use of R-HUEPO during chemoradiotherapy (weekly cisplatin) for advanced cervix cancer was associated with improved outcomes (progression-free and overall survival and local control rates) relative to maintenance of hemoglobin values above 10 g/dL by way of non-R-HUEPO methods.
-
By Alison Edelman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of the Family Planning Fellowship Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, is Associate Editor for OB/GYN Clinical Alert.
-
An exercise designed to test laboratory readiness for a bioterrorism incident turned into a real-life disaster of another sort when specimen mislabeling and flagrant breaches in infection control resulted in several exposures to an attenuated vaccine strain of Brucella abortus RB51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports (CDC).
-
One in six Americans, which is almost 36 million people, have never had their cholesterol checked, according to new statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
-
If an employee is morbidly obese, drug-impaired, or chronically sleep-deprived, you would probably suspect that this individual is at greater risk for injury or illness in the workplace. But what if the worker is part-time or hired on a temporary basis?